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Western separatism: An age-old story entering a new chapter
Why then, if there has been no real growth in separatism as a threat in Alberta and Saskatchewan, has there been so much handwringing and…
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Fraser Institute, provincial government swing and miss again on education funding
My recent analysis of BC’s education funding crisis made some waves, travelling far and wide in the media and becoming one of our most-read papers…
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Work Life: Cities and Civic Workers
The Union Role in Building Better Cities Book Review Although Carlo Fanelli’s book Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto is not about…
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How Proportional Representation could help to decentralize power and strengthen Parliament
Submission to the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform The debate around electoral reform has largely neglected a central question: what would a…
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Fast Facts: Honouring a Quiet Warrior – Larry Morrissette
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Sept 28, 2016 The recent death of Larry Morrissette is a major loss, not only to his family…
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Independence or a bit more income: British Columbians with disabilities are forced to choose
On September 1st, British Columbians on disability assistance saw their monthly rates go up for the first time in nine years. Unfortunately, the BC government…
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The abysmal economics of LNG
In the lead up to the last provincial election, British Columbians learned about an economic panacea named LNG – Liquefied Natural Gas. This new industrial…
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BC Commentary: A review of provincial social, economic and environmental trends
Fall 2016, Volume 19, Number 3 Download 1.45 MB8 pages Inside this issue: We can fix Vancouver’s broken housing market, by Marc Lee Working for…
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Real health care would be maintaining wellness, not treating illness
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Why progressives oppose Canada-EU trade deal
Photo credit: Olaf Brostowski, Flickr Creative Commons Seven years after negotiations began on the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Trudeau government is…
